While 80GB is the recommended minimum a smaller drive will work (as long as you have other data drives), especially now that it is not used as a landing pad and as long as you upgrade to PP2 early-on. I had a system running a few weeks ago with a 40GB System Drive (not SSD). Worked fine.

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EX475, 2 GB, LE-1640
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PC2: Lenovo Laptop, Win XP Home SP3
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Hi,

So, your saying that the install will install on a 40 gig drive. Creating a 20 gig system partition and a less than 20 gig data storage (formating required space). Then of course add extra drives to the pool. I thought the install checks the drive size and won`t continue ?

Thanks.

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HP MediaSmart EX495 E8600 3.2Ghz CPU, 4GB ram, 8TB storage including 3TB drives in pool. WHS with Active Directory, WDS, Media Center Master, Logitech server. Office 2010 server with client add-ins.
Microsoft MVP - Windows Home Server.

The last time I tried it the drive size was not tested. I doubt they would have changed that, especially since the space is no longer needed for a landing pad.

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....JBick

EX475, 2 GB, LE-1640
PC1: Vista-->W7 Ultimate/32, (D-Drive RAID-5 Array)
PC2: Lenovo Laptop, Win XP Home SP3
2xLinksys WRT54G v1.1 and 2xNetGear GS105 Gbit switch

I can confirm that WHS will NOT load onto a Hardrive that is less than 80GB.

I just tried to install on a 40GB and recieved an error that a suitable harddrive of greater than 65GB was not found.

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Chris Bickerstaff
HP MSS DataVault X510
Core 2 Quad Core Q9550s
4GB Mushkin Ram
TR4MB eSata Enclosure
TR4UB USB Enclosure
Netgear WNDR3700
UPS APC 1500 XS LCD

Now I'm confused

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HP MediaSmart EX495 E8600 3.2Ghz CPU, 4GB ram, 8TB storage including 3TB drives in pool. WHS with Active Directory, WDS, Media Center Master, Logitech server. Office 2010 server with client add-ins.
Microsoft MVP - Windows Home Server.

I had the same experience when I tried to install on a 55GB Virtual PC drive - it gave the same message about needing greater than 65 GB.
I went up to 80 GB and it worked fine.

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DiskStation: DS1512+ 2x 3TB, 3x 1TB, 3GB RAM, Dual-Core Atom D2700 (2.13 GHz), DSM 4.2; DX510 5x 1TB

What level is your install disk, original(prior to PP1) or newer(with PP1 on it)?

Edit: I suspect that you are using an original disk, with the new one the check for size is no longer there.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

It was the 120 day evaluation copy with PP2 already on it.

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Chris Bickerstaff
HP MSS DataVault X510
Core 2 Quad Core Q9550s
4GB Mushkin Ram
TR4MB eSata Enclosure
TR4UB USB Enclosure
Netgear WNDR3700
UPS APC 1500 XS LCD

Well, I give up. Don't know what they are doing - some check some don't.

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HP EX470, 4 GIG, 4200+ EE SFF, WHS V1, Production
HP EX485, 4 GIG, E5800, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Transfer Server, Backup Server
HP EX490, 4 GIG, Q9400S, WHS 2011, Stablebit Drive Pool, Mediaserver
HP EX485, 4 GIG, Q8200S, WHS 2011, ITUNES Server

I'm almost positive there is no media with PP2 on it, is it possible you meant PP1?

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Alex Kuretz
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Have you tried our Add-Ins?

Back in June when I was purchasing an OEM copy of WHS, there was NOT a version available with PP2. Only PP1 versions.

On the server desk top it says "Evaluation copy 3790 (Service Pack Two) "

I'm not 100% sure if I also saw this there before I shut it down, carried it into the other room & connected it to the network to update.

So, it is very possible that it was PP1 disk.

I had ordered the disks from MS & they were shipped in the mail.

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Chris Bickerstaff
HP MSS DataVault X510
Core 2 Quad Core Q9550s
4GB Mushkin Ram
TR4MB eSata Enclosure
TR4UB USB Enclosure
Netgear WNDR3700
UPS APC 1500 XS LCD

So now the question becomes,

How do you install a copy of WHS PP2 onto a 40 GB drive if all disks ship with PP1?

That would make good wiki.

Do you have to slipstream the PP2 update?

If so, how?

I'll be willing to give it a try if anyone can help me get started.

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Chris Bickerstaff
HP MSS DataVault X510
Core 2 Quad Core Q9550s
4GB Mushkin Ram
TR4MB eSata Enclosure
TR4UB USB Enclosure
Netgear WNDR3700
UPS APC 1500 XS LCD

PP2 gets downloaded during the updates after you install, is that what you're asking?

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Alex Kuretz
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Have you tried our Add-Ins?

The problem that I had with the 40 GB drive was that it never got far enough a long during loading, to be able to update to PP2.

In fact within a couple minutes of starting to load the OS, I would get the error "Suitable Harddrive of 65GB or more not found"

So, How are some people getting WHS to load on a 40GB drive?

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Chris Bickerstaff
HP MSS DataVault X510
Core 2 Quad Core Q9550s
4GB Mushkin Ram
TR4MB eSata Enclosure
TR4UB USB Enclosure
Netgear WNDR3700
UPS APC 1500 XS LCD